121st General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Physical Chemistry
Room No. Event Hall
Time 4월 20일 (금요일) 11:00~12:30
Code PHYS.P-186
Subject Stochastic Photon Emission of Nd3+-doped Upconversion Nanoparticles
Authors Eunsang Lee, Kang Taek Lee1,*
Department of Chemistry, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
1Division of Physical Chemistry Department of Chemi, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Abstract Upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) have attracted great attention as one of prominent nanomaterials because of their unique optical properties. In particular, their specific photostability such as non-blinking and non-bleaching behaviors has contributed greatly to the field of bioimaging and biosensors. Previously, we observed stochastic photon emission (SPEM) in core/shell UCNPs (NaYF4:Yb3+,Er3+/NaYF4), ranging from nanosecond to microsecond time scales. To the contrary to power-laws kinetics of most quantum dots, the off-state distribution of UCNPs follows an exponential kinetics. There have been growing interest recently in Nd3+-doped UCNPs that is excited by 808 nm light, that penetrate deeper than that by 980 nm. We report SPEM in Nd3+-doped UCNPs for the first time. This luminescence intermittency is attributed to the long lifetime of intermediate states of the dopant lanthanide ions.
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